Articles from the December 26, 2013 edition


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  • Culver City: Ocean League Champions

    Fred Altieri|Dec 26, 2013

    (EDITOR's NOTE: Fred Altieri completes his two-part series as Culver City High wins the 2013 Ocean League football championship.) By Fred Altieri Observer Reporter Game #7 was the one that put Culver into the driver's seat. In their farewell game with Inglewood High, who is leaving the Ocean League after this school year, the Centaurs put together their most balanced game of the year in terms of controlling the ball. After shocking the Sentinels with two explosive touchdowns, it was the defense...

  • Chamber Golf Tourney Raises Funds For Schools

    Dec 26, 2013

    The Culver City Chamber of Commerce Annual Golf Tournament raised $ 1,452 for Culver City schools. Sixteen of the 64 paying golfers had signed on as CCEF supporters. Thanks to the CC Chamber for inviting CCEF to participate in this event, and for consistently valuing Culver City students and public schools....

  • Movie Review: The Book Thief

    debbie lynn elias|Dec 26, 2013

    THE BOOK THIEF has stolen my heart. To describe the film in a word, it's quite simply, MAGNIFICENT. Adapted from the 2005 best-selling novel of the same name by Markus Zusak (a book that remained on The New York times best-seller list for almost seven years), THE BOOK THIEF is the story of Liesel, a young German girl shipped off to live with foster parents just prior to the onset of WWII. Taken away from her mother due to the changing political and ethnic cleansing being implemented as Hitler...

  • Pension Liabilities, Underground Economy and What Bullet Train?

    Neil Rubenstein|Dec 26, 2013

    By Neil Rubenstein Observer Columnist General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announced during a recent visit to Jordan that United States troops could be based in the moderate Arab country for "several years." The mission of the U.S. force, which includes 1,000 troops and a squadron of F-16 and Patriot missile units, is to prevent the war in Syria from spilling over into Jordan. In a study of 187,000 nurses referenced in the September 2013 British magazine BMJ, it was...